Special launch for Ute Kanngiesser’s first solo release Geäder which comes out today on Earshots Recordings. These recordings were made earlier this year at the Cafe OTO Project Space, and at St Augustine’s tower in Hackney.

This release and other Earshots tapes will be available at a special price for audience members.

There will be a solo cello set, and a duet with bassist Guillaume Viltard whose solo recordings came out last year as the first Earshots release.

EARSHOTSEarshots Recordings is a new label from London. It was created alongside our ongoing concert series that focuses on improvised music and field recording works. As the sounds themselves are shaped by real environmental circumstances, our releases should be as well; brushed and crushed by the media they are engraved in.

“For over 10 years, I have only played unscripted/improvised music. I have experimented with the sound of the cello, limiting myself to the alive material at hand: vast and complicated layers within the instrument and myself; and to let this music evolve continuously in relationship with others. It relates to the process of uncovering an endless multiplicity of coexisting sense perspectives. And it deals with the energy that this gives rise to. For me, it is the most exciting place to play music from.”

An intensely physical double-bassist Viltard was one of OTO’s first associate artists – he has played and performed here with musicians as diverse as Otomo Yoshihide and Kan Mikami, Louis Moholo-Moholo, and Evan Parker. Particularly memorable was a sensational solo set in support of Marc Ribot. Most often his work has been in the ‘classic’ jazz format of saxophone/bass/drums: from trios with the late Tony Marsh and Shabaka Hutchings, to most recently Eddie Prévost and Ken Vandermark.

His close association with OTO endures, and since late summer 2013 he has been part of a group of musicians playing, pushing and learning day and night in the OTO project space. Most often private, groupings around this new energy these groups are increasingly public, for example Steve Noble’s (new) Quartet.